Large Grants Program

Wild Animal Initiative’s 2022 Call for Large Grants is a restricted call focused on two very specific themes with related tracks that seek to address key unanswered questions important for understanding wild animal welfare. Wild Animal Initiative is inviting interested groups to prepare a proposal for a project of up to US $200,000 to explore:

Theme 1: Density-Dependent Welfare:

• Track 1: Resource availability and density-dependent welfare

• Track 2: Density-dependent mortality

• Track 3: Population regulation interventions

• Track 4: Avoiding the carrying capacity paradox

Theme 2: System Dynamics & Network Effects:

• Track 1: Modeling community welfare

• Track 2: Empirically modeling network effects on wild animal welfare

• Track 3: Network effects of interventions designed to improve wild animal welfare

For more detail on the themes and our selection criteria, as well as instructions on how to apply, please read the full announcement.

We encourage applicants to reach out to discuss their interest in proposing a project under the themes or carrying out one of the described studies, at any stage of the proposal development process. 

Please contact: grants@wildanimalinitiative.org